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"BUFDRVR" a écrit dans le message de ... 2nd Bomb wing has two Flor de Leis (spelling...help...) and at least one other "Fleurs de lys" ArVa |
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2nd Bomb wing has two Flor de Leis (spelling...help...) and at least one
other "Fleurs de lys" Thank you. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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Quibble: the authorized 2nd Bomb Wing symbol has only ONE
fleur-de-lys. Hmmm, I can't find one at the moment, and I stopped wearing one after graduating from Weapons School in DEC 00, but I thought there were two??? BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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"BUFDRVR" wrote in message ... Quibble: the authorized 2nd Bomb Wing symbol has only ONE fleur-de-lys. Hmmm, I can't find one at the moment, and I stopped wearing one after graduating from Weapons School in DEC 00, but I thought there were two??? BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" http://www.au.af.mil/au/afhra/wwwroo...ges/0002bw.php Tex |
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Tex Houston wrote:
"BUFDRVR" wrote in message ... Quibble: the authorized 2nd Bomb Wing symbol has only ONE fleur-de-lys. Hmmm, I can't find one at the moment, and I stopped wearing one after graduating from Weapons School in DEC 00, but I thought there were two??? http://www.au.af.mil/au/afhra/wwwroo...ges/0002bw.php It seems like the AF emblem (re)designers are changing a lot of stuff that's been around, unchanged for for almost 90 years. The 43rd TFS, for example, my first real squadron out of tech school. Ops had old photos on the walls of WW I planes sporting almost exactly the same design I wore. (Almost exactly, because the squadron designation had changed over the years: Pursuit/Tactical Fighter/just plain Fighter...) The only thing the current 43rd emblem has in common with history is that it includes a (skinnier) bumblebee wearing boxing gloves. The emblem outline is today some avant-garde lazy "S" shape. |
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http://www.au.af.mil/au/afhra/wwwroo...ges/0002bw.php
Tex Thanks Tex. Now the big question. How in God's name do you wear something on your left sleeve 5-6 days a week for 4+ years and find yourself unable to accurately describe it? BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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BUFDRVR wrote:
Even units whose history began in France may display their motto in Latin. The 2nd Bomb Wings origins begin in France, yet both its patches had the motto in Latin. Morto et Destructo - a very cool yet un-PC Death and Destruction and Liberatus Defensmus (not sure about spelling there) - Defenders of Liberty(boring!). That should be something along the lines of "Libertas Defensores" for the latter. "Death and Destruction" would be "Mors et Eversio". -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO (If you're going to e-mail me, you'll have to get "yourfinger." out.) |
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That should be something along the lines of "Libertas Defensores" for
the latter. Actually the exact phrase on the patch is "Libertatem Defendimus" according to the web site Tex put up, its means "Liberty We Defend". "Death and Destruction" would be "Mors et Eversio". The original patch said "Mors et Destructio" which sounds like Death and Destruction to me, but as you can see, I'm not Latin expert. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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